We thought we'd cover the lot in our Top 5 car combat games on Android piece. If you're in the mood for some hard drivin', step right this way.

The clue to Reckless Getaway's place on this list is in its name. For while you're ultimately trying to get away from the police in this frenetic arcade game from Polarbit, you have to do so rather recklessly! You're not always able to outrun the law, so well-timed nudges and some blatant ramming are the order of the day.

Few video game series have combined combat and cars so effectively as Grand Theft Auto. Now, you can play the game that really kicked off the whole phenomenon in this near-perfect port of Grand Theft Auto III on your Android. Pinch a car, drive around the city, and cause mayhem. Bliss.

In Gears and Guts, the dev takes the top-down racing of Reckless Getaway, applies it to GTA's free-roaming city, and adds in Death Rally's OTT gunplay. Oh, and it chucks in a bunch of shuffling zombies for you to mow down in the process. What's not to like?

Arguably the purest car combat game on this list, Remedy Entertainment's Death Rally gives you a tidy top-town perspective and allows you to strap whopping great guns to the front of your car. Each game is as much about whittling down the field as it is taking the perfect racing line, and it's all the better for it.

Like in Reckless Getaway, your main objective here may be to escape the law, but that doesn't stop you from getting physical in the process. In EA's Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, you also get to switch over and play the part of the cops, deploying spike traps and other weapons to bring those crooks to a screeching halt.